Originally Posted by
El Peso
Is it grounded in reality that a 50-76 seat RJ pilot is making 500K a year curtesy of AA? Is it grounded in reality that on top of that pay they’re getting 150k bonus to accept a flow to mainline? And that doesn’t even include all the other bonuses they get during their time at Eagle. All that money comes from the same coffers that pay us.
With all that in mind, how can you argue that 10/5/3, with six months of retro at 6% is something we should even consider voting for?
The sad part is that when ALPA National and the WO MEC Chairmen met with Ferguson and Patrick this was pointed out as a possible outcome of not working with them on a plan to give WO pilots seniority numbers and eventually absorb the regional flying.
2 things fixed the problems with regional attrition. One was seniority, the other was pay. Absorbing the WOs pilots (or maybe just the Captains) would have increased APAs bargaining power and created a solution where American’s money could be spent more on APA pilots. But it was bad timing being an APA election year etc. All the same… ALPA National and the WO MECs warned APA that this was a possible outcome and here we are. The industry pay is likely to remain upside down for a couple years because APA didn’t want to entertain talk of seniority numbers to the unwashed regional pilots flying their passengers.